Captions and translations

Transcription gets names wrong. The caption panel on the episode page takes the word as heard and the word as it should be, and corrects every occurrence in the episode at once — because "you heard this name wrong throughout" is the actual complaint, not "fix instance 14".

Corrections are stored per word instance with the original kept alongside, so each one is verified at render time rather than assumed. If a re-transcribe moves or changes that word, the edit is skipped and logged instead of rewriting an unrelated word.

The fix is applied at the single point words are fetched for rendering, which is why the burned captions, the SRT and the VTT cannot disagree with each other.

Every finished clip carries captions.srt and captions.vtt, both on the clip's own timeline rather than the source's — so they stay in sync even when silence has been cut out of the middle.

On any ready clip, open Translated captions, choose a language and press Translate. You get an SRT and a VTT for that language, and the player gains a subtitle track for it.

Cue timings are copied, never re-derived. The translation is built from the cue list of the clip's own VTT, and the model is never shown and never asked for a timestamp — so the only thing it can get wrong is the words. A reply with the wrong number of cues is refused outright rather than realigned, because dropping one cue would shift every later line onto the wrong moment.

Available: Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu.

Burned-in captions stay in the original language — a second burn is a second render.

Add a TrueType or OpenType file (.ttf or .otf, up to 10 MB) to the media library with its license, then choose it as the caption font in a brand kit. Burned-in captions, guest review copies and the editor preview use it. Opening hooks and lower thirds keep the built-in typeface.

The editor's Captions tab restyles one clip's captions: font, size, colours, outline, shadow, a background box, height, words per caption and the word animation. Changes stay with that clip; Save as brand style makes them the brand kit's caption look (an admin's save applies at once; an editor's is sent to an admin to approve). Click a word in the caption list to fix it everywhere it appears in the episode.

The Text panel adds titles, callouts, lower thirds and other text on top of the video, in the bundled fonts or any font in your media library, with stroke, background, shadow, glow and entrance and exit animations. Drag text on the canvas to place it; drag a corner to resize and the knob below it to rotate.

The preview draws captions and text with the same renderer and fonts as the export, so what you see is what the video gets. Text appears in both downloads; captions only in the captioned one.

The editor preview has no fallback fonts for scripts the chosen font lacks, so check Hindi, Arabic or Chinese text in the exported video.

Burned-in captions in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu read right to left with joined letters, and Hindi and other Indic scripts keep their conjuncts. The highlighted word moves in reading order, and lines break at each script's own sentence ends.

Opening hooks, lower thirds and cover text are drawn by the same text renderer, so a Hindi name or an Arabic title appears as it does in the captions.